Job description

This Manager, Legal Affairs role reports directly to the Chief of Legal Affairs, sitting within a Legal Department responsible for protecting Dubai Future Foundation and its affiliated entities from a legal and regulatory perspective. Frameworks, structures, contracts, and agreements across the organization need to stay aligned with applicable laws and regulations, and this role supports that mandate while contributing strategic legal guidance on emerging policies relevant to innovation, technology, and artificial intelligence. You will manage and prioritize legal matters, proactively identify and mitigate risks, and ensure timely, high-quality legal support reaches the business. Contract drafting and negotiation processes get led in partnership with internal stakeholders, alongside drafting, reviewing, and updating legal policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures. Complex contracts, agreements, and ancillary legal documents get negotiated and reviewed, with recommendations prepared for internal approval and feedback managed with the Chief of Legal Affairs. The full contract lifecycle, spanning drafting, negotiation, execution, amendments, renewals, and change control, gets managed collaboratively across DFF departments. Legal and regulatory research gets conducted to assess risks and implications, with significant matters escalated to the Chief of Legal Affairs. Relationships with external legal counsel, government entities, regulators, and other stakeholders get built and maintained, supporting engagements with UAE courts and regulatory bodies as required.